Introducing Mr. F-G… William Friese-Greene & The Art of Collaboration 26 Apr 2018 Last Friday I got back to doing something I used to do 20 years ago: talking about William Friese-Greene in public. The occasion was the British Silent Film Symposium 2018…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 5 21 Feb 201821 Feb 2018 “When are you going to get to the point?” is an entirely justifiable cry to escape from you, my dear, (im)patient reader. Well, I have been working on something rather…
Introducing Mr. F-G Old School vs New School 11 Jan 201811 Jan 2018 These two contrasting books about William Friese-Greene came through my letterbox this week. In the Blue Corner we have "Close-up of an Inventor" from 1948, written (under a pseudonym) by…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 4 3 Jan 20183 Jan 2018 To some it would have been the most boring place in the world, but to me it was Aladdin’s Cave. It was March 1996 and I was in the deepest,…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 3 20 Dec 201720 Dec 2017 There are some photographs of Friese-Greene’s early film experiments that seem to have been wilfully ignored by historians writing about the beginnings of cinema. My guess is that this is…
Moving Pictures That Eureka Moment – 2 15 Dec 201720 Dec 2017 You can’t keep a good man down – and when you’re talking about a compulsive inventor, that goes to the power of ten. At the end of the first part…
